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Sera, Sermfy's AI Church Intelligence Assistant
Asking Sera a Question: Getting Started with Ask Sera
A quick-start guide to opening a conversation with Ask Sera and asking your first question.
Asking Sera About Finances: What You Can and Can't See
Explains how Sera's finance answers are gated by your own role's finance access in Sermfy.
Asking Sera Follow-Up Questions in the Same Conversation
Shows how to ask Sera natural follow-up questions using pronouns without repeating yourself.
Dismissing or Acting on a Sera Insight
Covers your two options on any Sera Insight card: dismiss it or act on it with the attached button.
How Sera Flags an Attendance Decline
Explains how Sera detects and surfaces an overall attendance decline across your church.
Meet Sera: Your Church's AI Intelligence Assistant
An overview of Sera, Sermfy's built-in AI Church Intelligence Assistant, and the two ways you'll interact with it.
New Church? How Sera's Recommendations Change as You Grow
Explains how Sera's suggestions start simple for a new church and grow more advanced as your data does.
Positive Insights: When Sera Highlights Growth
Explains how Sera also highlights positive trends in attendance and first-time visitors, not just problems.
Sera's First-Time Visitor Follow-Up Reminders
Explains how Sera reminds you when a first-time visitor hasn't been followed up with yet.
Taking Action Directly from a Sera Answer
Explains how the action buttons attached to Sera's answers and insights take you straight into the relevant task.
Understanding "Why Am I Seeing This?" on a Sera Insight
Explains what the 'Why am I seeing this?' panel on a Sera Insight card actually shows you.
Understanding Consecutive Absence Alerts from Sera
Explains what triggers Sera's three-consecutive-absence alert and why it reports the pattern without judging it.
Understanding Sera's Answer Format: Insight, Then Action
Breaks down the consistent four-part structure behind every Sera answer, from direct answer to action button.
What Sera Can Answer: Attendance, Members, Visitors, and More
A rundown of the specific attendance, membership, visitor, and feature-adoption questions Ask Sera can answer.
What Sera Won't Do: Limits of Your Church Intelligence Assistant
Lays out the boundaries of what Sera will and won't do, from causation to permissions to guessing.
Where to Find Sera Insights on Your Dashboard
Explains where Sera Insights appear on your Dashboard and why only a few cards show at once.
Why Sera Sometimes Says It Doesn't Have Enough Data Yet
Explains why Sera tells you it lacks enough data instead of guessing, and what that response actually means.
Why Sera Suggested You Try Check-In
Explains why Sera suggests trying Attendance Check-in when it's set up but going unused.